"When we talk about emotion, we really talk about a collection of behaviors that are produced by the brain. You can look at a person in the throes of an emotion and observe changes in the face, in the body posture, in the coloration of the skin and so on."

-- Antonio Damasio

#Brain Quotes #Skins Quotes #Looks Quotes

“When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.”
“Learn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile.”
“There are many secrets; donâ€™t try to resolve them all.”
“When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless.”

Source : My Mortal Enemy pt. 1, ch. 6 (1926)
“Here is something no real celebrity will ever tell you: film acting is not very fun. Doing the same thing over and over again until, in the directors eyes, you get it right does not allow for very much creative freedom... In terms of sheer adrenaline, film has absolutely nothing on theater.”
“I tend to [have] a lot of ideas but then just leave them in that infant form and kind of move on.”
“If we must “feel” God's presence before we believe he is with us, we again reduce God to our ability to grasp him, making him an idol instead of acknowledging him as God.”

Source : Craig S. Keener (2001). “Gift and Giver: The Holy Spirit for Today”, p.27, Baker Books
“One of the big breakthroughs, I think for me, was reading Robert A. Heinlein's four rules of writing, one of which was, 'You must finish what you write.' I never had any problem with the first one, 'You must write' - I was writing since I was a kid. But I never finished what writing.”

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